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IBM • IB m ' - by changing the world, LEAD THE WAY one positive act at a time. Volume 102 October 2006 Suzi Howe'Governor Rotary District 5890 Issue 4 A FELLOWSHIP OF SERVICE SERVICE Above Self The District Conference is for the Americana Puerto Vallarta Hotel is a entire district membership and is Luxury ocean-front resort situated in the usually held in the spring of the year, main hotel zone. The lobby is covered by a prior to the Rotary International huge 100 ft. palapa, a palm thatched Convention which is usually in June. umbrella, to provide an open air concept. The purpose of the District The spectacular pool area is rimmed by Inside this issue: Conference is to provide an tropical palm trees, and features a opportunity for fellowship with other comfortable swim-up bar. West Houston 2 Rotarians - interspersed with lots of This year's District Raffle tickets are fun, inspirational speakers along with $10 each. Simplified Grants discussions of important Rotary > The prize is valued at $7,500 and matters on both the International and includes round-trip airfare from Houston. Rotary Foundation 3 District levels. * Accommodations furnished by members of Month The District Conference is such a the Rotary Clubs of South Africa. > A 3-day pass for 2 to Kruger Polio Eradication major event that the Rotary 4 National Park is included. International President attends or See Cape Town, Johannesburg, Peace & Conflict sends his personal representative to Studies Winelands and world class game 5 represent Rl. Permanent Fund Hits viewing. $500 Million The 2007 District Conference will be April 26-29, 2007 GSE Updates 2006-07 Rl Monthly 6 Program Themes SA Ding-a-Ungs Needed List Your Projects 7 ACM Chairs The conference registration form is District Club 8 available at: Attendance http://www.rotary5890.org/ PDF-FILES/Conference07/ConfRegForm.pdf TRF Funding Chan 9 The airline information form is P U E RTQ VAL L A RT A available at: R. G. Musgrove DISTRICT 589O CX3NI tRINCt APRII 26-29. 2OO; http://www.rotary5890.org/ Editor Fiesta Americana Hotel, PDF-FILES/Conference07/ConfRegForm.pdf Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Both are legal sized printouts. With a 5 star rating, the Fiesta Lead the Way Page 2 Volume 102, Issue 4 West Houston Presents Scholar- District Simplified Grant Awards The District Grant Committee has awarded the Rotary Club of Alvin, a $ 1500 Grant toward a renovation project of a community park in Alvin. This upgrade will benefit long term use and have a monetary return as well from users of the facilities. A second grant award of $ 1500 was made to the Rotary Club of West University for a dental project as part of their long term commitment to the Women's Home. It serves over 250 homeless women struggling with substance and other abuse. Many residents do not have healthy teeth which inhibits self esteem in job interviews. This is a very worthy project and has long term positive affects. Club Board member Bob Rogers, left, and West Congratulations to both clubs in submitting Houston club President, Joy Neidell, present Shriners their DSG applications before the deadline of Oct Hospital for Children Administrator Steve Reiter a $1,000 15, 2006. Rotary Club Scholarship, in August, to be awarded to an orthopedic patient pursuing a post-high school education. If any clubs are thinking in the long term, for Members of the Rotary Club of West Houston 2007-08, please contact the Grant Committee with toured the Shriners Hospital for Children in any ideas you have for a District-wide or otherwise October to award the first scholarship in their high profile project. Transition Program. This program helps orthopedic patients with the Additional information on Simplified Grants may challenges they face for post-high school education, be obtained by contacting Cecile Schutter the and the adjustments they have to make to become District Rotary Foundation Sub Committee independent. Chair-Grants, 2006-07 at [email protected] or Shriner and Rotarian Bob Rogers, a member of 713-665-4767. the Arabia Shrine Center's Hospital Committee, arranged for lunch and a tour of the unit's facilities. It included the rehabilitation departments and the orthotics laboratory where patients braces are ...a Rotary Moment designed and produced. "Building membership is, of course, crucial to building Rotary. Rotary is nothing without its members and its clubs, and as members age, we must find new ones to take their places. More than that, we must always be growing in order to meet the many new needs that arise in our communities every day." William B. (Bill) Boyd Rl President - 2006-07 Club members gather with the scholarship recipient, Diego Director Rotary International, 1998-2000. Member of the Rotary Club of Pakuranga, Barragan, center, during their visit. New Zealand. Lead the Way Page 3 Volume 102, Issue 4 November is The Rotary Foundation Month What Event Will Your Club Spon- It is almost impossible to imagine Rotary today without The Rotary Foundation. So much of what Rotary is known for — international service projects, grants, scholarships and, above all, PolioPlus — depends on the R/ President F°ur|dation. Without the Foundation, BiH Boyd Rotary could never have grown into a truly international organization. A Rotary without Matching Grants, without Polo players compete in Chukkers for Charity in Ambassadorial Scholars, and without the unifying fight Oswego, Illinois, USA. for polio eradication would be a Rotary without many When it comes to raising money for a good of the most important ties linking our clubs and dis- cause, the Rotary Club of Oswego, Illinois, doesn't tricts. horse around. In its charter year, 2003, the club The Rotary Foundation was not founded by launched what has become an annual tradition: the accicent. Because Rotary is an organization of Chukkers for Charity fundraiser in support of businesspeople and professionals, we tend to be a very numerous club projects. practical group. There are very few starry-eyed The event features an exhibition polo match idealists in Rotary, and although we may follow our along with a silent auction, sit-down dinner, and live hearts, we lead with our heads. As Rotarians, we music. Club members sell sponsorships ranging from assess needs, consider our resources, and $ 1,000 to $ 10,000, providing buyers with constantly try to do the most with what we have. corresponding amenities such as reserved seats at Arch C. Klumph, the Foundation's founder, realized the match and raffle, tickets to VIP parking spots, a that a central pool of resources could increase the tent with chairs and table, and beverages and hors power of each Rotary club. d'oeuvres. Proceeds from the event have supported PolioPlus, water wells in Kenya, eye surgeries in The Rotary Foundation is a major reason Mexico, tsunami relief, a Smile Train/Rotaplast Rotarians are able to accomplish so much. The project, and other efforts. classic example, of course, is PolioPlus. The cost of a For the Rotary Club of Gorinchem, The Nether- dose of oral polio vaccine is small, but the logistics of lands, fundraising is an individual matter. Each delivering it are daunting. Yet when hundreds or member is asked to conduct a US$ 1,000 fundraiser thousands of Rotarians come together to deliver to help achieve the club's goal of giving to The vaccines during a National Immunization Day, the Rotary Foundation's Annual Programs Fund. One greatest hurdle has already been overcome, and the club member sold original paintings, another Foundation is there to help with the rest. Great sponsored a car wash, a third hosted a gourmet works like these could not happen without Rotarians, dinner, and others sold an array of activities, and they could not happen without the Foundation. products, and services. The result 40 Paul Harris Fellows and $40,000 for the Foundation. Rotarians know the value of a good investment. Whether it's bidding bon voyage to raffle That is why every year, Rotarians give to the winners of a Caribbean cruise, sponsoring a Foundation. We know that our money will be used Rotarian's ascent of the Great Wall of China (1,850 well and wisely by our fellow Rotarians and that stairs at $ 10 per stair), or promoting Rotary Night together we can do so much more than we could at the opening performance of The Nutcracker, ever do alone. That is why I ask all of you to Lead the Rotary Foundation fundraisers can be imaginative, Way in your clubs with a gift to the Foundation — fun, and easy to implement. What better time to this year and every year. launch one than Rotary Foundation Month in November. Lead the Way Page 4 Volume 102, Issue 4 Rotary and Worldwide Polio Eradication The Rotary Foundation is a powerful force for Rotary clubs are encouraging Muslim clerics to realizing Rotary's vision for a better world. set up vaccination booths at mosques and to Rotary is part of a global partnership, with the announce immunization events at Friday prayers. World Health Organization and the Center for Rotarians also are helping recruit volunteers from Disease Control, that since 1988 has reduced the local Muslim communities, especially in Moradabad, number of polio cases worldwide by 99 percent. the epicenter of the polio outbreak. South Asia, home to three of the world's four In other parts of South Asia, the Global Polio remaining polio endemic countries, is addressing the Eradication Initiative is helping devise responses lingering challenges of polio eradication through suited to each country's challenges. For example, in revamped strategies, including stepped-up Pakistan, the National PolioPlus Committee is immunization activities.